Quotes of: Eleanor-roosevelt Keyword

Some astronauts describe the routine flushing of urine into space, where the freezing temperatures turn the droplets into a cloud of bright, drifting crystals, as being among the most amazing sights they saw on an entire voyage.

Eugene Cernan

I stood for parliament with the amazing support and help of my ex-husband, but it's not something that was handed to me like a peerage. I worked hard and was elected. So my achievements, such as they are, are my own.

Louise Mensch

While I understand the passions and the anger that arise over the death of Michael Brown, giving into that anger by looting or carrying guns, and even attacking the police, only serves to raise tensions and stir chaos.

Barack Obama

Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.

Dalai Lama

To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.

David McCullough

My sister is an artist and an interior designer. She went to high school for art. I went to high school for music.

Maira Kalman

as the Sword was the last resort for the preservation of our liberties, so it ought to be the first thing laid aside when those liberties are firmly established

1776

The overall result was drift punctuated by protest.

1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War

Jackson lead as he lived, sometimes with his heart, sometimes with his mind, sometimes with both.

American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House

Because there is a need to hear one story and to tell another.

All We Know of Love

Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.

Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

Trayvon Martin, at the most, seems only to have been guilty of being himself.

Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

You've got to marinate your head, in that time and culture. You've got to become them." (Speaking about researching, and reading, and immersing yourself in History)

John Adams

The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think....Let us dare to read, think, speak, write.

John Adams

There is scarce a cave, an isolated rock, a lone pine tree or a pile of stones without supporting folklore.

Journey Through Europe

America's prisons have become warehouses for the mentally ill.

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.

The Rape of Nanking

It was different, though, knowing something in your thoughts and then hearing it confirmed, made real, planted in the world like a tree

River of Stars

It is not easy, she thinks, to make your way in the world while insisting on a new path.

River of Stars

His sins seemed to be so few that he was alarmed and groped anxiously for more, knowing he could not be without guilt.

Such Is My Beloved

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

The Story of My Life